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To: Travis McGee
The picture leaves off the generator station whose tanks are being refilled with gallon jugs.

So you do that and some genius will come up with the idea of hooking the engine to the wheels instead of a generator hooked to the batteries....and voila you get the modern car or truck.

32 posted on 08/05/2022 6:04:05 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Dateline 2075: “I’ve got an idea! Why don’t we start hooking the engine to the wheels instead of a generator hooked to the batteries??”


33 posted on 08/05/2022 6:05:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (“If you are receiving this transmission, you are the resistance.”)
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To: AndyJackson

When an EV runs out between charging stations, it’s screwed.

During a blizzard in VA last winter, 100s of cars were stranded overnight in the snow.

No problem for ICE cars with half-full tanks.

EVs using electric power for heat went dead. Their drivers and passengers had to seek refuge inside ICE cars and trucks that were still running and warm.

Next morning, everybody who could, just drove on. Some ICE cars ran out of gas. An emergency truck with gas cans easily and quickly got the ICE cars that ran out of gas on their way.

The dead-battery EVs were still screwed. A diesel-powered charging station truck, running a diesel-powered generator, had to charge each EV slowly, one at a time.

If the mild and temporary Virginia blizzard had occurred with 90% EVs instead of 2 or 3%, it would have been much worse. In northern states where blizzards can go on for days, people could have frozen to death, or National Guard helicopters would have been required to rescue them.

This is physics. This will not change. What happens with EVs that run out of juice between charging stations is a BIG problem that will only get worse.


39 posted on 08/05/2022 6:23:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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